Sentence examples for linking benefits from inspiring English sources

The practice of linking benefits to inflation is relatively recent.

Linking benefits to treatment sounds suspiciously like a coercive measure to "incentivise" people who would not otherwise have had treatment to accept it.

The IPPR wants to restore the popularity of welfare by linking benefits more closely to contributions, restoring what it says is a lost sense of fairness.

If the chancellor had stuck to the formula of linking benefits to the CPI level in the previous September, then these benefits would have risen by 2.2% in April 2013.

The PHIA and the Social Services Act are to some extent more explicit, by linking benefits to items.

It will consider the case "for linking benefit entitlements to take up of appropriate treatment".

The report suggests linking benefit payments to claimants' lifestyles, and notes that some councils have introduced schemes allowing GPs to prescribe exercise at swimming pools, yoga, gyms and walking clubs.

Linking benefit to a requirement to undergo treatment would set a dangerous precedent for people with physical or mental health problems and would be against the principles for healthcare set out in the NHS Constitution".

The committee expresses further concern that the Jobcentre Plus programme, directly linking benefit entitlement to job-seeking through monitoring by "personal advisers", may be insensitive to the needs of people able to perform some economic activity but incapable of 30-plus hours of work a week.

The proposed changes would link benefits to a new measure of inflation — one that is projected to rise more slowly than the current index.

Who loses: Disabled people who need assistance with going to the toilet and dressing are set to get lower entitlements of PIP and there will be a knock-on effect on a range of linked benefits.